MIT Technology Review - space travelhttp://www.technologyreview.com/tagged/space-travel/
enTwo Tickets to the Moon: Yours for Just $1.5 Billionhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/508346/two-tickets-to-the-moon-yours-for-just-15-billion/
<p>Several ex-NASA officials are behind a company that plans to offer trips by 2020.</p><p>In 1961, President Kennedy said mankind would go to the moon. Eight years later we did. Would you believe a company that said the same thing?</p>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:05:00 +0000juniper.friedman508346 at http://www.technologyreview.comThe Best Space Shuttle Tribute Videohttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/424769/the-best-space-shuttle-tribute-video/
<p>Remembering what it was to be 10 and in awe of the future</p><p>There are a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/jul/21/space-shuttles-united-video-tribute" target="_blank">bunch</a> of <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5823357/watch-30-years-of-the-space-shuttle-in-one-single-launch" target="_blank">videos</a> out there paying tribute to the end of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/science/space/22space-shuttle-atlantis.html" target="_blank">final flight</a> of one of the most complicated pieces of technology ever conceived – the Space Shuttle.</p>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:19:00 +0000digitalservices424769 at http://www.technologyreview.comFor Sale: Trips to Space Stationhttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/422414/for-sale-trips-to-space-station/
<p>Space tourist flights have resumed—buy now to fly in 2013.</p><p>If you ever wanted to take a trip to the International Space Station, or fly on board a rocket into orbit, now’s your chance. Space Adventures, the only commercial company to have sent <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/21808/" target="_blank">private, paying, space tourists</a> to the space station, has announced that it will have three seats available per year on a Russian Soyuz rocket starting in 2013.</p>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:00:00 +0000digitalservices422414 at http://www.technologyreview.comSimulating Life on Marshttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/418257/simulating-life-on-mars/
<p>Six people will lock themselves in a Russian-built Mars simulator for 520 days.</p>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices418257 at http://www.technologyreview.comWhy NASA Needs a Better Planhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/417443/why-nasa-needs-a-better-plan/
<p>Scott Pace says Obama’s mission for the agency is risky and unclear.</p><p>Last week, the Obama administration proposed <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/business/24441/" target="_blank">a new budget for the U.S. space program</a> that would cancel NASA’s efforts to develop new launch and transport technology and return humans to the moon by 2020. Instead, the budget focuses heavily on using the <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/business/23450/" target="_blank">commercial sector</a> to ferry astronauts to and from orbit. </p>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices417443 at http://www.technologyreview.comBuzz Aldrin Backs Obama in Scrapping Moon Programhttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/417376/buzz-aldrin-backs-obama-in-scrapping-moon-program/
<p>The famous Apollo 11 astronaut says NASA’s sights should be on Mars.</p>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices417376 at http://www.technologyreview.comBudget Charts a New Course for NASAhttp://www.technologyreview.com/article/417323/budget-charts-a-new-course-for-nasa/
<p>Moon and Mars missions are scrapped, but radical new technology gets funding.</p><p>For many space-exploration advocates, the moon and Mars appear to be receding, at least as likely near-term destinations for manned missions.</p>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices417323 at http://www.technologyreview.comWill the United States Return to the Moon?http://www.technologyreview.com/view/417256/will-the-united-states-return-to-the-moon/
<p>Rumors suggest that the Obama administration won’t fund NASA’s lunar plans.</p>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices417256 at http://www.technologyreview.comPrivate Space Technology Powers Uphttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/415570/private-space-technology-powers-up/
<p>Former astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz says the private sector can help NASA, and reckons he has the rocket to prove it.</p><p>In the coming weeks the Obama administration will decide the <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/business/22869/" target="_blank">future of U.S. human spaceflight</a>. A <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/384767main_SUMMARY%20REPORT%20-%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">summary report</a> by the committee tasked with reviewing NASA’s current plans and providing recommendations suggests <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/business/23450/" target="_blank">utilizing the commercial sector</a> for unmanned, and perhaps manned, missions as a way to reduce government costs. <a href="http://www.adastrarocket.com/Franklin.html" target="_blank">Franklin Chang Diaz</a>, a former NASA <a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chang.html" target="_blank">astronaut</a> and founder and president of <a href="http://www.adastrarocket.com/home1.html" target="_blank">Ad Astra Rocket Company</a>, agrees. </p>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices415570 at http://www.technologyreview.comWhat Should NASA Do to Secure Its Future?http://www.technologyreview.com/view/415433/what-should-nasa-do-to-secure-its-future/
<p>To get the funding the agency desires, space advocates have some explaining to do.</p>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices415433 at http://www.technologyreview.com